cache RAID diabled

[Jason39560]

I have a Pavilion dv6-7000. it was very fast so I liked it very much. I believe it has a small SSD plus a 750G hard magnetic drive. The hard drive was broken so I purchased a new hard drive and reinstalled the oprrating system. I also called HP for support and was asked to purchase the recovery disks. I did. But the computer is very slow now. I believe the SSD is not regnized by the computer. When I boot the computer, it shows "cache RAID 0, 29.8G disabled". but I cannot enable it. It is not highlighted in the BIOS interface so I cannot do anything about it. It also show the 750G hard drive is "non-RAID disk"

Please help me.

Thank you very much!

Regards,

Jason

[iomare]

Hi,

Have you installed Intel Rapid Storage Tchnology. You need to setup your raid configuration from this application and there might be a need to adjust Bios settings.

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25165/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-RAID-Driver...

Here is the link to user guide:

http://download.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/sb/iRST_User_Guide.pdf

This is not the latest version since the latest version doesn't include your chipset.

Let me know if you need further help,

David

[Jason39560]

David,

thank you very much for yiur help!

what you said makes great sense!

I did what you told me to do, but the BIOS doesn't allow me to enable the RAID. Please see the screenshot. It only allows me to either" make it non-RAID" or "EXIT"

[iomare]

Hi,

When you start up the computer do you have the option during boot (ast vvery beginning) to enter "Intel® Rapid Storage Technology option ROM  " by pressing CTRL+I " ?

let me know,

David

[Jason39560]

Hi David,

Yes, I can get inot the RAID Technology Option by Crtl+I. But when I get in, only teo options are highlighted that I can move to: 1) RESET DUSK TO NON-raid" AND 2) EXIT.

Thank you!

Jason

[iomare]

Hi,

Your disks are already in Raid even if the cache disk is disabled. You need to go to the software in Windows and from there enable the cache Raid by creating the raid configuration in the software in Windows. Launch the Intel  Rapid storage tecnology application and follow the guide in the link.

Let me know,

David

[mdklassen]

>  I can get into the RAID Technology Option by Crtl+I.

> But when I get in, only two options are highlighted that I can move to: 1) RESET DUSK TO NON-raid" AND 2) EXIT.

When you replaced the disk-drive, the new disk-drive was "added" into the RAID set -- probably not your intention!

Open "Computer Management" and start "Disk Management".

You should see something like:

Of course, your output will be quite different.

Use the Windows "Snipping Tool" to capture a screen-shot of what you see, and post it here.

I'm guessing that there is a RAID "set", which shows up only as ONE partition, and the size of it is the size of the smaller device, and you have another partition on the larger-capacity device that is NOT part of the "set".

Since the smaller device is part of the RAID, it cannot be "enabled" to be used as a "cache".